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From: leland@cs.columbia.edu (Lee Woodbury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: dxpsview malfunction on Ultrix 4.0
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.181335.7804@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 18:13:35 GMT
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Reply-To: leland@cs.columbia.edu (Leland Woodbury)
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In article <1990Dec15.193811.2419@csn.org> grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu writes:
>
>in the release notes for 4.1/4.0, it said that DS5000 uses with PX/PXG
>and PXG/TRUBO graphics must toggle the ``watch progress'' button to
>get dxpsview working.
>
>I think you can probably find an X resource that would enable this all
>the time.

I got a response by e-mail from lynch@spiff.stanford.edu, who gave
this solution:

	DPSViewer*optionsMenu.windowDrawMode.value: True

It does indeed work.  Well, sort of.  After merging the above
with the resource database, dxpsview starts up with that flag set,
at least according to the Watch Progress button in the Options Menu.
But dxpsview still crashes ("BadAlloc") anyway, just as if it hadn't
been set.  And then setting it manually via the Options Menu doesn't
change anything either: it still crashes.

The only way I can get dxpsview to work is to start it up (*without* the
above apparently-correct resource spec above) and set the flag manually.
Ain't that a bitch?  But this *does* seem to remain in accord with a
precise reading of the release note as you've written it above, i.e.,
that one must "toggle" the Watch Progress button.

I call this a bug.

I'm running on a DECstation 5000/200 with the 2D accelerator, 80Mb
RAM, Ultrix 4.0.

By the way, can you give me an exact document and page reference
for that release note?  I've looked through my copy and can't find it.
Thanks.

Leland Woodbury
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